Leng Wu took Chu Hengyuan's letter, went back to his room, read it, and burned it to ashes.
The letter explained that Qin Birou, Chu Hengchuan's cousin, had taken advantage of Chu Hengchuan's drunkenness and successfully climbed into his bed. With her modest good looks and fragile, tearful demeanor afterwards, she had stirred Chu Hengchuan's protective instincts, making him reluctant to simply hand her over to Chu Hengyuan's Prince's Estate.
When Noble Consort De found out, she furiously scolded Chu Hengchuan for being indecisive and letting personal romance cloud his judgment, and then cursed her niece Qin Birou for bringing shame to the family and lacking all sense of shame. Had she not been so desperate to marry her cousin Chu Hengchuan, Qin Birou would surely have confronted this dear aunt of hers: in the name of your grand ambitions, what right do you have to sacrifice my happiness? As for climbing into a bed, didn't she learn that very trick from this dear aunt? Back then, wasn't that precisely how you entered the Prince's Estate to become the mistress of a palace today—so why shouldn't she do the same?
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